My GiRlS

I tell you...it is a good thing they are cute. It is their saving grace sometimes. Just wanted to jot down some random thoughts about these little ladies before I forget and think, "What was it that I was laughing so hard about?"

Paige...has been trying so hard to turn her walk into a run. My sister saw her running the other day while our kids were playing and asked me if she needed therapy. It is a little "Pheobe-esque", but I am just glad she is trying. It's also good for a laugh. Yesterday, I was pleasantly awakened to the sound of clinking dishes coming down the hall. I sat up to find Paige carrying a cookie sheet complete with knife, fork, plate of toast and glass of milk with a curly straw. Unfortunately, she tripped over the bedspread at the end of the bed and the milk went flying! How could I be mad at that?? She ran to her room crying, and while I am swearing on the inside, mopping milk out of the carpet, I was calling to her, "Thank you...I'm not mad! You're not in trouble!" She came back in and took the glass back out for a refill. When she came back, they wanted to watch me eat their creation. The toast looked rather "shiny" so I thought I was in for a big bite of butter...but no. They had covered it in maple syrup and called it "French Toast". After my first bite, the giggling duo ran back out to the kitchen, only to come back a few moments later with a plate of their own. Paige told me, "We thought we would join you." She really has been a good helper with Bode, so when she asked tonight if we could go to Chili's for dinner, it was hard to say no. On the way there she informed us that she would like to stop at Iceberg on the way home for dessert, saying that dad "talked her into it". We ended up having dessert at Chili's since both girls ate their entire meals (a rarity!) SO YUMMY...we got the white chocolate raspberry molten lava cake. It came to us covered in white chocolate shavings to which Paige replied, "Hmmm...fingernails!"

Claire...really just cracks me up. The other day, Paige was taking pictures non-stop with her camera. She told Claire to "pose" so she could take a cute picture of her. Without skipping a beat, Claire turned around and MOONED the camera! I couldn't help but laugh. It was almost like when your kids swear and you want to discipline them, but if you open your mouth you will laugh out loud! I have no idea where she got that! Last night, I came home from work to find Claire's cute little face pop out the door when I opened the garage. When I got inside, I found her standing there with her nightgown around her neck, trying to find the armholes. Apparently she had fallen asleep in her dance clothes and daddy had just put her in her bed. Well, this is the girl that LOVES jammies, and even though it was 5 in the morning, she had to change. She told me she had woken up because she was cold, tried to change her clothes and got stuck but couldn't get Steve to wake up to help her. So she took her blanket, woobie, and two Webkins out to the living room couch to wait for me. One last thing...quite a while ago, Paige started a nasty habit of sucking on her hair. Paige has since been threatened with her life to knock it off, but unfortunately, Claire has recently picked up on it. It makes hair-brushing a nightmare! I have been putting her in ponies (which she hates because it pulls her hair), but then she started refusing that too! This week, I put an end to it once and for all. I marched the little "hair-sucker" right into Cookie Cutters and told the girl to cut it short enough so that it could not reach her mouth. It was one expensive haircut, but problem solved.